Yale University Library Research Guides: Theology & the Environment: Ecological Justice

Theology and Ecological Justice

After Nature's Revolt: Ecojustice and Theology by Dieter T. Hessel (Editor)
Climate Justice: Ethics, Energy, and Public Policy by James B. Martin-Schramm Argues that reliance on fossil fuels has produced grave threats to justice, peace, and the integrity of creation. Addressing these threats requires of Christians not simply new individual sensitivities and sacrifices but a new way of living in harmony with the earth and an earnest search for policy that fosters sustainability, reflects values of equity and fairness, and operates on a scale commensurate with the problems.
The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity (Online) by Willis Jenkins Interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanity's increasing power over basic systems of life. Develops lines of practical inquiry through "prophetic pragmatism," an approach to ethics that begins with concrete problems and adapts to changing circumstances.
The Gardeners' Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics (Online) by Noah J. Toly Offers an interpretation of environmental governance that draws upon insights into the tragic - the need to forego, give up, undermine, or destroy one or more goods in order to possess or secure one or more othergoods. Engages Christian and classical Greek ideas of the tragic to illuminate the enduring challenges of environmental politics.

Ecology and Justice Series (Orbis Books) This series seeks to integrate an understanding of the Earth as an interconnected life system with concerns for just and sustainable systems that benefit the entire planetary community. Viewing the present moment as a time for responsible creativity, this series asks authors to speak to ecojustice concerns from the Christian community, from the world’s other religious traditions, from secular and scientific circles, and from new paradigms of thought and action.

Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Online) by Krista E. Hughes (Editor); Dhawn B. Martin (Editor); Elaine Padilla (Editor) Presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and motivate action for the sake of creation care.
A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future by Roger S. Gottlieb Surveys the successes and significance of religiously and spiritually inspired environmentalism. Gottlieb provides an interdisciplinary, interfaith look into the intersection of religious issues and political life and asserts that the environmental movement is an indispensable part of a just and sustainable world.
GreenFaith: Mobilizing God's People to Save the Earth by Fletcher Harper; Bill McKibben (Foreword by) Gives concrete examples and tips that will help people of faith and worshiping communities engage in Earth care.
Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice by Sharon Delgado Challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation. Adapts John Wesley's theological method by using scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to explore the themes of creation and justice in the context of the earth's changing climate.
Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological and Economic Transformation (Online) by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda